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/ 15 October 2003
Beyond the protracted anti-retroviral debate in South Africa is a worrying lack of attention to the "shelter and services needs" of families with members who are HIV-positive or living with Aids. Local government has been fingered as the villain for failing to deliver basic services — it must, argues a prominent scholar, get its act together.
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/ 15 October 2003
Media 24, Naspers’s print arm, has launched an assault on rival Independent Newspapers’s dominance of the Durban newspaper market. Under the title <i>Weekend Witness</i>, the Pietermaritzburg-based <i>Natal Witness</i> has introduced a Saturday paper aimed at Durban, the coast and inland KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 15 October 2003
Not many days go by in Baghdad without a claimed sighting of Saddam Hussein, recklessly turning up in close proximity to the American forces, or rallying the faithful in his old haunts, depending on who is spinning the story. The multiplicity of sightings is all the more strange given that there was very little chance of ever seeing Saddam in the flesh while he was in power.
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/ 15 October 2003
The tide of Jamaican women entering Britain with their stomachs full of cocaine is pushing the country’s already overcrowded female prison system to breaking point. An investigation has established that the long sentences being served by the 450 Jamaican couriers are stretching British resources to the limit.
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/ 15 October 2003
Political obituaries often contain many references to alpha male, a description that, applied to humans, apparently denotes physical prowess, high achievement, bullying and sexual attraction. But what of alpha female?
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/ 15 October 2003
The window that is opened on the political soul of President Thabo Mbeki in his weekly letter published in ANC Today offers an occasionally disturbing view. And most disturbingly, writes Sam Sole, he sets his face absolutely against debate and the consideration of criticisms.
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/ 15 October 2003
Australian-born scrum-half Steve Devine’s extraordinary career will reach another important landmark when he makes his World Cup debut for New Zealand, against Canada on Friday. Devine (26) the back-up to Justin Marshall, said he could not wait for the match.
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/ 15 October 2003
Now, at least, he can start to pay that money back. The many creditors of the novelist DBC Pierre were given a crumb of comfort last night when the self-confessed serial ”cheating bastard” won literature’s most famous prize — the Man Booker — in an extraordinary final twist to an already bizarre story.
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/ 15 October 2003
”I mean we are lucky — people go to Iraq. He’s not getting killed … well only for 80 minutes now and again.” – Brisbane boutique owner Maile Falekakala, girlfriend of Fijian scrum-half Moses Rauluni on the risks he takes.
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/ 15 October 2003
English Football Association (FA) officials have confirmed they are investigating the Arsenal and Manchester United response to charges following the fracas after their Premiership clash at Old Trafford last month. Arsenal have been accused of failing to control their players.